South Africa: The Wreck of the 5:28

Day was ending as the eleven jam-packed
coaches of the 5:28 from Durban clattered toward suburban Effingham
Junction Station. The cars carried 1,200 blacks returning from their
jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles
away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I
saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the
train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged
fill of the roadbed.